"Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative."

"Religion is pickled God."

"Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe."

"When I see an adult on a bicycle, I do not despair for the future of the human race."

"No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft."

"It becomes a bore doing imaginative books that do not touch imaginations, and at length one stops even planning them."

"Love and magic have a great deal in common. They enrich the soul, delight the heart. And they both take practice."

"Apothegms are portable wisdom, the quintessential extracts of thought and feelings."

"The difficult child is the child who is unhappy. He is at war with himself; and in consequence, he is at war with the world."

"The shortest route to getting things done is just do it."

"What is virtue but the trades unionism of the married."

"Loneliness is everything it's cracked up to be."